When the Porky Pervert Roy Moore Went After Jimmy Kimmel
In the age of Trump, in the darkness of November, it turned out to be an epic confrontation.Roy Diddler Moore, the religious fanatic and anti-gay maniac, taking on Jimmy Kimmel…
2017
Punk rock, reaching across borders and the ages
Our record label CEO, Simon Harvey, sent me a note: Well, this is cool. A friend in Vancouver just posted a picture, of a stack of great old singles he’s…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Matt Bruenig examines the multi-million-dollar increase in the household wealth of the U.S.’ top 1% over the past decade. And Ian Welsh discusses…
Why Sarah is the perfect press patsy.
Her name is Sarah Huckabee Sanders and she is President Trump’s White House press secretary. Watching her in action, you get the feeling that she is something of a female…
The Dangerous Class and Revolutionary Theory: Thoughts on the Making of the Lumpen/Proletariat
by J. Sakai paperback 308 pages ISBN: 978-1-894946-90-2 J. Sakai’s ground-breaking, The “Dangerous Class” and Revolutionary Theory: Thoughts on the Making of the Lumpen/Proletariat, is our first major exploration of…
The Canada Infrastructure Bank and the perversities of predatory capital
Photo by Chris Wattie In their election platform and in ministerial mandate letters, the federal Liberals promised they would “establish the Canada Infrastructure Bank to provide low-cost financing (including loan…
Monetary Imperialism
Photo by Chris Dlugosz In theory, the global financial system is supposed to help every country gain. Mainstream teaching of international finance, trade and “foreign aid” (defined simply as any…
A Decade of Anti-Racist Canada
Hey, I’m just as surprised as you are. When I first started the blog, it was to focus primarily on Calgary’s Aryan Guard (I’m somewhat embarrassed to admit this again,…
LA REVUE GAUCHE – Left Comment: Today In History
LA REVUE GAUCHE – Left Comment: Today In History: Sagittarius (12/1/1954) It’s my birthday. Turns out I am a horse in both western and Chinese astrology. Sagittarius …
Reviewing Farmed-Salmon ‘Bloodwater’ Discharge Permits Not Enough to Protect B.C.’s Wild Salmon: Critics
Footage of bloody discharge being released into B.C.’s coastal waters from farmed-fish processing plants by photographer Tavish Campbell has made international headlines and prompted the promise of further investigation from…
Washington Post Conservative Columnist – Trump Must Be Removed
Jennifer Rubin writes the Right Turn column for the Washington Post. The veteran conservative pundit has added her voice to the chorus demanding that Trump go. It seems to be…
Foreign Policy – "This Is How Every Genocide Begins"
Foreign Policy’s Daniel Altman on why Trump’s most un-American outburst cannot be ignored. A president can do many things that seem cruel, especially from the point of view of his…
The New York Daily News – Trump is Barking Mad
The gloves are off at New York’s Daily News paper. Donald Trump is a madman. He’s off his rocker. After his latest spasm of deranged tweets, only those completely under…
Christmas? Hell No. It’s SpringTime in Greenland
As November gives way to December you might imagine it would be freezing in Greenland inside the Arctic Circle. You would be wrong. Here’s a dandy graphic depiction of what’s…
Polar Bears Chosen as a Bizarre Symbol to Deny Climate Change, Scientists Say
Polar bears have long been a symbol of a warming climate, a visible victim of shrinking sea ice cover and changing weather patterns. The bears’ loss of habitat was among…
An Increasingly Tattered Cloak
That would be the one Justin Trudeau wraps himself in with such rectitude whenever he attempts to convince the public of his climate-change bona fides. Increasingly, both his cloak and…
No Special Relationships
When Theresa May criticized Donald Trump for tweeting British anti-Muslim propaganda, Trump took to Twitter: “Theresa@theresamay, don’t focus on me, focus on the destructive Radical Islamic Terrorism that is taking…
If I have one message for y’all, this is it
Fighting far-right mvmts means getting involved in #cdnpoli at the local level, says @kinsellawarren "A tweet is not enough. A Facebook link is not enough. You need to show up."…
World AIDS Day 2017
I can’t find too much going on to commemorate World AIDS Day in Toronto this year but it just so happens to be the day my Beyond Surviving group meets,…
2017 Short Story Advent Calendar tops Audreys Books Edmonton Bestseller List for third consecutive week
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended Nov. 26, 2017, compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the…